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I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film.

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.

The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.

It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.

The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.

It's so mental how I looked in the '90s. The fact that I thought my ponytail was a good thing - it was just terrible. Cutting it off was so monumental.

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news

There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.

Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.

The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based on fairy tales. It's based on observable facts in the human and in the biological history of the planet. I think that can be a source for comfort.

The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.

I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like 'Dr. No' and 'From Russia with Love.'

But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Sure, you're an intelligent and highly capable individual, and you are learning a lot on the fly as you build your company. But you also need to come to terms with the fact that there are things you have chosen not to be an expert in.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it.

I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.

I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.

This is the big question that we all have about our children: How much, how soon, do we tell our children the less comfortable facts about the world they're going to inherit?

Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record

It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.

Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.

I don't think it's good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.

In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.

The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.

It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.

We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.

Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true.

I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been where you are. It's the weirdest thing. You just can't get your head around that, can you? You can't get your head around the fact that someone who is 60 was once 16, if you're 16. But the fact is they have been, and they remember it.

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.